I don't know why I have such strong feelings that it's totally appropriate for a group of people to have a conversation at a group table in a coffee shop but obnoxious when a person has an extended phone conversation and doesn't step away?
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We can pretend this is hypothetical and not my current circumstances if that's easier.
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[Honestly, and I know the armies will come after me, but .... it's mainly straight white guys who do the "talk on the phone at a group table" thing, in my experience, and that's a part of it.]
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Breaking: A white guy DMs to tell me I’m being unfair to straight white guys — inserting inaccurately into my tweet that I was “attributing all table phone talking to ‘straight white guys’” — and asked, “What is it that only gay alcoholics do?”
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Only thing, I’m a recovering alcoholic, so I don’t know if that changes the answer. ... And, I’m bipolar, too, if you want to really go for it.
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Anyway, the point was that I think those who feel more comfortable claiming all spaces as their own feel more comfortable speaking on phones in group settings. And, despite white guy’s sadness I made that insinuation, it is what I’ve seen and I think it’s likely true overall.
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This is all distracting from a critical piece of thinking. Why is it that I can sit on a train and talk to my companion but I cannot sit on the same train and talk to someone on the phone? Makes. No. Sense.
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There’s a lot on the thread responding to that, with multiple reasons given — including science!
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Reason 1 is the dumb people on the phone who feel they need to scream. Reason 2 is nosey people get frustrated because they can only eavesdrop on half the convo. The proper target of your ire should be the people who talk too loud. I would join that cause.
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